Finished Object : Shorts - 7 August 2024

I started writing about this sewing project here and then about the chosen fabric for the finished pair of shorts here.

For days I felt really intimated and found it hard to start cutting the special fabric : too nice to cut, not really my fabric and so on. I shouldn't have worried so much; I had to be brave and eventually just got on with it. I’m happy to report that it went just fine. I was very careful to lay the fabric the right way around.

I placed all the pattern pieces correctly and even managed to get a lot of extra material to make another project. In the photo above I show you the pattern pieces and the two back pieces as I was cutting them. The table’s too small to lay the whole project so it was a question of cutting the two backs and then the two fronts. I was able to use some left overs for the pockets.

It was really good and a relief to see the project come together : all the pieces fitted together really well and the size I chose fitted my friend.

This link will take you to the free sewing pattern for the shorts in case you are ever interested. I recommend the pattern because it worked well sometimes things don't work out as advertised. The only alteration I made was that I cut the waistband much wider. I basically just made it 13 cm wide and then folded it in half. This is because my friend wanted it a bit wider. The elastic was not as wide but my friend didn't mind.

The photo above shows you the finished pair of shorts just before I added the elastic. The colour of the fabric is so dark that I had to put a pair of scissors in the pocket to show where it was. Making the pockets was very straightforward just following the video I told you about before too.

My friend was a bit reluctant to model the finished pair of shorts but she's not taken them off since I made them for her. I've even suggested she should buy another piece of fabric to make another pair !

Thank you for reading !

( The photos are all mine)